A new proposal from the government says agents and portals will be banned from advertising rental properties with non-compliant Energy Performance Certificates. The idea comes from the...

The Home Office is proposing a new online service to make it easier for agents and landlords to check that prospective tenants fulfil the Right To...

The business model underpinning most lettings agencies is set to change fundamentally if there is the much-anticipated second wave of Coronavirus. That’s the view of Jon Cooke,...

A major player in the Build To Rent sector has announced another large scheme - 346 units - on a major city centre site. LGIM Real Assets,...

The number of new prospective tenants is at its highest level ever according to data just released by ARLA Propertymark. The association’s August Private Rented Sector report...

Consumer charity Citizens Advice has given guidance to student tenants who may have to return home early this term because of the Coronavirus crisis. The charity says students...

There’s to be a new editor for Landlord Today from tomorrow, Thursday October 1. It’s to be Graham Norwood, currently editor of sister publications Letting Agent Today...

Letting agencies and landlords are being invited by a local council to take part in what it describes as a “risk free” initiative to reduce homelessness. Cambridge...

Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a refund for a university student...

A rent guarantor service says the rental sector has investors and landlords who are happy for tenants to defer rent payments but cannot countenance having nothing...

Fledgling portal Homesearch has partnered with outsourced viewing service Viewber in a new PropTech teaming. Under the deal, agents who receive an enquiry about one of their...

There have been more Coronavirus-inspired changes to lettings regulations in Scotland. Firstly the Scottish Government has passed the Coronavirus (Scotland) Acts (Amendment of Expiry Dates) Regulations 2020...

North of England lettings agency Matthew & Evans Rentals has been kicked out of the Property Redress Scheme, one of the two official ombudsman schemes policing the...

A crooked lettings agent stole almost £30,000 from dozens of clients to prevent his business from going bankrupt. Tim Catherall, of Nottinghamshire, ran Hartleys Estate Agents in...

Hamptons International has given a rental market forecast for 2021 - and it doesn’t make for happy reading. The agency says the rental sector has recovered more slowly...

A £5,000 fine has been handed to five landlords in London for failing to license HMOs.  One of the properties, a four-bedroom HMO in Greenwich, was rented to four separate tenants and...

It appears that the Renters Reform Bill - a key measure in the 2019 Conservative General Election manifesto - has been pushed into the long grass. The...

A leading trade body has broadly welcomed the Winter Economy Plan outlined by Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday, but says this still does not do enough to...

A leading figure in the private rental sector says the lettings industry has been largely ignored once again by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in his Covid rescue...

One of the country’s first specialist residential property fund managers has named the agency to handle its latest Build To Rent investment units. Hearthstone has appointed Carter...

Propertymark, which will from later this year combine both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents into one body, has...

The government has revealed the dates of its so-called Christmas eviction truce. Agents will not be able to instruct bailiffs to complete evictions between December 11 and...

ARLA Propertymark has hit out against last minute attempts to effectively reinstate the eviction ban which finally came to an end last weekend. Earlier this week Letting...

Stockport-based property development company Three Sixty has launched what it calls an online agency - Three Sixty Living - to handle the lettings of its units. Three...

Nearly half of prospective home buyers have delayed their plans because of the Coronavirus crisis, a mortgage company says. Research by Aldermore shows the average delay as...

Much has been made of the backlog of court cases - including landlords’ possession attempts - and now the Ministry of Justice has revealed eight more temporary...

A prominent PropTech figure says agents have a key role in reducing evictions in the short term - and he suggests they appoint a dedicated specialist...

The government has accused campaign group Generation Rent of peddling “unreliable and misleading” figures about potential evictions in the private rental sector. Generation Rent has for some days...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and well managed properties. Westminster has the...

A police force is warning potential tenants to check before handing over money after scammers conned people into making rent pre-payments for properties which do not...

The private rental sector dedicated to student accommodation in London could see a 24 per cent drop in income in the coming year according to a lettings...

A Liberal Democrat Baroness says she is to make a last-ditch bid in the House of Lords tomorrow to stop evictions going ahead following the end...

A survey of 2,750 tenants by a prominent PropTech firm suggests a quarter are concerned about not being able to pay their rent. At the same time,...

A consultation process by the Scottish Government may herald stricter restrictions on Airbnb and similar short let platforms north of the border. The Scottish Government’s proposals include a...

The legal industry says the end of the eviction ban must be the moment to ensure the widest number of tenants across the country have “access...

A definitive document has been published by the House of Commons library listing every eviction-related measure taken by UK governments during the Coronavirus crisis. The 51 page...

Housing Minister Chris Pincher says the eviction ban is formally over but the situation remains under “constant review” as the second wave of Coronavirus hits. In a...

Labour’s housing spokeswoman has accused the government of wasting the last four weeks before the eviction ban ended by putting its enthusiasm for Brexit above the...

The government has set out confirmation of the new regulations and protocols that agents and landlords will have to follow if they wish to restart or...

One of the most outspoken campaign groups against the end of the eviction ban has staged a series of so-called ‘boot camps’ to show tenants how...

The Citizens Advice charity claims that new figures suggest concern is building amongst renters about the possibility of losing their home.  It says the number of people...

The lettings industry is today preparing for the current ban on repossessions to be lifted on Sunday with courts to hear cases again from Monday. This is...

A fully electronic check-in process can help to protect landlords’ properties and tenants’ deposits as students return to university over the coming weeks. At the same time,...

The letting market experienced a traditional seasonal decline in August, according to the latest analysis from Agency Express. Its Property Activity Index shows that the number of...

Some 60% of London office workers who rent in the capital say the pandemic has made them reconsider their living situation, according to new research. A survey...

Ahead of the evictions ban being lifted on Sunday, ARLA Propertymark has written to Housing Minister Robert Jenrick, setting out a range of points on behalf...

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has slammed London Mayor Sadiq Khan's call for a rent freeze in the capital. Yesterday, ahead of the eviction ban being...

The decline of the high street - which has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic - is forcing commercial investors to shift their attention to the...

A growing residential estate management company has committed its future to office-working after moving to a new boutique space in Birmingham. Principle Estate Management, which looks after...

A new whitepaper argues that landlords and tenants aren't getting what they want from the rental market. It says landlords need to be made the centre...